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The Reality of the Private Military/Security Companies Operating in Africa

Geopolitic and Geostrategic Intelligence, 2019
The African continent has become a security issue as a result of the changes that have taken place in the international system after the end of the cold war, making the continent a dumping platform for various security organizations.
M.S. DJEMAL
doaj   +1 more source

Chemical Recycling as a Tool for Enabling a Second Life for Polyesters

SusMat, EarlyView.
This review presents the elucidation of the life cycle of main polyesters, detailing end‐of‐life methods, with focus of solvolysis technologies, then an analysis of LCA and TEA on literature data, an original data analytic, and, finally, a current industrial mapping of the main processes with a critical perspective on the plastic life‐cycle ecosystem ...
Nícolas Soares Urruth, Cristian de Oliveira Romera, Caio Gomide Otoni, Bruno Francisco Oechsler, Pedro Henrique Hermes de Araújo, Claudia Sayer   +5 more
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When Time Stands Still: The Destructive Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Mothers of Combat Soldiers

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
What happens when stories refuse coherence? This article examines ambiguous loss among mothers of combat soldiers, focusing on how prolonged waiting and uncertainty infiltrate everyday life, eroding sensemaking. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, it explores how mothers experience the contraction of time and space—manifested in suspended routines ...
Shirly Bar‐Lev, Galit Itzhaki Draizin, Agamit Gelb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prostitutes, Mercenaries and Feminism: the Public and the Private in International Relations

Estudos Internacionais
Feminist approaches have become increasingly present in International Relations studies. Using these theoretical perspectives, the present article analyzes the basis on which rests the prejudice toward prostitutes and employees of Military and Private ...
Wagner Martins dos Santos, Cristiano Mendes   +1 more
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“Just My Presence, Just Using These Words Is Not Enough”: Shifting from Identity‐Based Inclusion to Structural Transformation in Language Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study focuses on 17 in‐service language teachers who graduated from a social justice‐oriented MA program in Teaching Languages to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching Foreign Languages (TFL) at a US higher education institution. Drawing on multiple data sources that connect participants' pre‐service and in‐service experiences,
Deniz Ortactepe Hart
wiley   +1 more source

How National Security Drives the Coevolution of International Relations and International Business Policy: Evidence From the Belt and Road Initiative

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
wiley   +1 more source

German Coalition Politics: Between Pluralist Stagnation and Crisis‐Driven Welfare Retrenchment

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The current German coalition government of the centre‐right Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the centre‐left Social Democrats (SPD) has spent its first year in office preparing for a major round of welfare state retrenchment. However, the coalition lacks a coherent political project.
Jörg Michael Dostal
wiley   +1 more source

Wagner Group: An instrument of Russian foreign policy? | Grupo Wagner: Um instrumento de Política Externa da Rússia?

Political Observer
  In an international context where states seek to diversify their means of external projection, consistent with their traditionalism, Russia maintains a traditional vision of power.
Carla Conceição da Silva Ferreira, Oleksandra Kostiuk, Yegho Preisigke Luxinger Rodrigues   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field—knowledge and moral authority—and the forms of power that currently shape societal rules and health outcomes—economic, political, ideological, and physical.
JONATHAN C. HELLER
wiley   +1 more source